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I am not a caring teacher
While I’m grading this afternoon, I’ll borrow one of my entries from The Wall of Education, a multiblog I’m participating in. It’s my foray into an interdisciplinary discussion of ethics and caring, a critique of some notions from a cynical historian’s perspective. And since it’s our accreditation/review visit over the next few days, it also […]
Mental whiplash
Hint to student writers: don’t suddenly switch topics in the middle of the paper. My brain’s too old for that.
Paper malaprop
Maybe I’m too tired, but I had to laugh at the misspelling of a 1980 article’s title: Myra Strober and David Tyack’s Why Do Women Teach and Men Mange? I’ll admit I’m getting itchy just thinking about it.
Chug chug chug…
SafeAssignment (the plagiarism-checking software my institution uses) is back to checking papers, albeit slowly. I suspect their client list grew more quickly than their capacity, but the problems are irritating to me as a faculty member.
Warning on plagiarism software
For anyone who teaches at a university contracting with Safe Assignment‘s plagiarism-detection service, please note that those of us at USF have had several serious problems with the service in the past week, from the failures to pass off cookies smoothly from Blackboard to Safe Assignment’s server to far more serious problems, a corrupted database […]